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My pages

are still here. But wait... what's this?

WOW! It's been updated!
 (It's still not very exciting though)



Now I'm coming to the end of my first year at Uni and frankly I'm shattered! Those of you who know me are probably thinking that it's because I've been doing lots of studying and generally being boring as usual. Well for the last few weeks you would be right. But the exams are nearly over and I have a whole week before I get chucked out of my Hall in which to do nothing but go down the pub/union/hall bar/wherever. I can't wait!

    So, what have I learnt from my first year? Well,
  • bourbon biscuits are great brain food,
  • Scouter's are mad,
  • engineers are physicist wanna be's (!) and
  • Astrophysics degrees don't contain anything interesting until the third year :-(
The A-level coursework is still there because I can't be bothered to get rid of it. I have done a few lab reports this year but it's just effort converting them to html. Besides, they are just as dull. If anyone really wants to know about gas flow through narrow tubes, forced oscillations or globular star clusters then mail me. But I don't think it's likely, do you?

I am still an astronomer(!), but the MIR and ISS predictions were so out of date that they have gone for good. Well, until I either find a program that does the same stuff on Linux, or I get my machine to dual boot properly so I can use STSPLUS without having to shutdown and unplug one of my hard drives. Thankfully, there is some very good astronomy software for Linux, but as yet I haven't found a satellite tracker as good as STSPLUS.

I'm still running SETI@Home. Here are my team's stats.

I also still run the distributed.net client but generally only when the SETI client can't connect to download another work unit! Consequently my stats are pretty boring. From the fortune generator: Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Don't all these links just give you a headache???

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